Friday, October 01, 2010

"Beat it. Flick it. Choke it. Rub it," urges Richard William Wanket in an advertisement for his services as a real estate agent with Edina Realty. "It's all Real Estate Masturbation if your agent isn't doing the work necessary to help you buy or sell your home."

The ad, which first ran in the local edition of the Onion in July, has catapulted to a much wider audience online in the last 48 hours, blowing up those corners of the internet where jerk-off-joke realty ads thrive.

"I've been getting a lot of calls since the ad took off," Wanket says. "Not all of them have been from people who want to buy or sell a house, but that's not really the point. I just wanted to get my name out there."

"Rich Wanket is no longer one of our agents," Lynn Clare, Vice President of Marketing for Edina Realty, said today. "Our realtors are independent contractors, but their advertising has to adhere to our guidelines, and this ad clearly did not."

Really? Why not? "Well, first of all, it didn't have the required Fair Housing notification on it," Clare said. "Also, you know, it's not a message that we feel is reflective of our brand."

So there you have it: Edina Realty isn't one of those masturbator-friendly realty shops. If you want that, you'll have to visit Wanket, who says he plans to stay in real estate. What really surprises me is that he does not call himself Dick Will Wanket. But really the bottom line is will this story have a Happy Ending? Apparently not, Edina Realty pulled Dick Wanket, looks like they gave him the shaft.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

An embarrassing billboard spelling error on a sign meant to tout South Bend schools has been pulled. The billboard is a digital one near the intersection of State Road 23 and Ironwood in South Bend. It went up on Thursday and was pulled on Monday morning.

The billboard encouraged people to go to "southbendon.com" to check out the "15 best things about our PUBIC schools." Obviously it was supposed to say "public", but the "l" was left out. Lee MacMillan said his wife first spotted it on Saturday.

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